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You want to make people laugh and by virtue of that please them, but when you're instructed to make people laugh and please them, you're ...

..according to recent research carried out by psychologist Alexander Todorov, most people actually make a judgement aobut someone based on his facial appearance within one-tenth ...

Aramus says you may, but you are not to perform any procedures on Avion or anyone else." "Darn, no game of Operation? And here I ...

Right there, in front of everyone, I threw my arms arond his neck and mashed my mouth against his. He was startled for a second, ...

I've been married too many times. How terrible to change children's affiliations, their affections - to give them the insecurity of placing their trust in ...

Only the Lisbon house remained dark, a tunnel, an emptiness, past our smoke and flames.

At the time, I didn't know what forgiveness meant. I wouldn't really know what forgiveness meant for another year, until my pastor, Rick McKinley, happened ...

This is a very insulting tributeBut take it in good heartCongratulations Mom and DadYou've reached Silver together ... apartLots of love etc

I discovered that the real meaning of Christmas has nothing to do with you at all. It is about a very special gift. I want ...

Attraction isn't wrong. People can't help who they are drawn to and they certainly can't control affinity, as uncommon as it is. What is wrong ...

You ever choke a man out with his own shirt?""What kind of question is that?""A yes or no one.

I hope that if you are employed full-time, you are doing it to ensure that basic needs are met and not simply to indulge a ...

So for you people who are filled with fear that I might someday be released: breathe easy, I don't see it happening.

I dislike people who get out of things unscraped. No scars, no scratches. Agnosceo veteris vestigia flamme. Refined through a scar.

Kill them all and let God sort them out.

Yes, I got my first Bolex camera a few weeks after being dropped in New York by the United Nations Refugee Organization. That was on ...

The trouble is, we've been taught what to see and how to render what we see. If only we could be in the position of ...

Train the body and develop stamina and endurance. But the spirit of competition and power that presides over them is not good, it reflects a ...

It's important to have female solidarity and support each other and other actresses.

I only do numbers/acts that excite me, or I connect to personally. I never phone it in. It's about finding the balance between what my ...

Blake and Livia were next to exit. He took the steps before she could and turned to offer her his hand, like a knight escorting ...

The key question isn't 'What is Evil?' The key question is 'When does the Good become Evil?

Historically, there would always be people among the general population who had family members, friends, cousins who'd done time or who'd been in prison.

I could only approach girls half my age, so I never brought any girl home. Mom thought I was disciplined, but the truth is that ...

Aristoteles quidem ait: 'Omnes ingeniosos melancholicos esse.' Aristotle says that all men of genius are melancholy.

I understand better than she'd imagine that history is indelible. You can mask it; you can patch it smooth and clear; but you always know ...

The panty-line thing shouldn't be a big deal. I think we should just all agree that panty lines are OK. Because the thong thing is ...

Wine had such ill effects on Noah's health that it was all he could do to live 950 years. Show me a total abstainer that ...

He told me it was First, by Van Cleef & Arpels.

I want to be more than just some guy who played in a World Cup final.

We lie under the network of arching shells and live in a suspense of uncertainty. If a shot comes, we can duck, that is all; ...

What I love is how pissed off Jane Eyre is. She's in a rage for the whole novel and the payoff is she gets to ...

Look for people in your life that who will help calm the storms in your soul rather than challenge it to a battle. Peace should ...

Ignorance and arrogance are the artist's and entrepreneur's indispensable allies. She must be clueless enough to have noidea how difficult her enterprise is going to ...

My memories make me angry, and sometimes, violent. Don't risk yourself trying to rescue me from them. No one can.

I would like the [film] industry to be more aware of what they're doing to influence people for good and for bad. There's no doubt ...

Japan lives with drastic segregation between the sublime, the ugly, and the utterly without qualities. Dominance of the last 2 categories makes mere presence of ...

Americans are getting stronger. Twenty years ago, it took two people to carry ten dollars' worth of groceries. Today, a five-year-old can do it.

A book isn't worth reading if it's not worth discussing.

When western books are set in the present, critics seldom call them westerns: the national myth allows the West only a past.

If you haven't read Alan Fletcher's The Art of Looking Sideways you should be arrested for calling yourself a Designer

Life wasn't about becoming, was it? It was about being.

We are increasingly blind for terrorism purposes and for general law enforcement purposes with the new devices and the continuing effort to make them even ...

Gymnastics, for me, gave me a lot of self-pride: that drive to want to be great at something for myself. But it also gave me ...

Your spiritual developement is a divine path that leads to truth, goodness and beauty; it is a spiritual path reflecting the unlimited, absolute nature of ...

She was the most beautiful, terrible thing he'd ever seen, like an acetylene flame, an incandescent filament, a fallen star right in front of him.

I don't think most people are all heroic or all villainous, so I find ambiguity of motivations to be a natural human condition.

We are all born with a unique genetic blueprint, which lays out the basic characteristics of our personality as well as our physical health and ...

To rob, to ravage, to murder, in their imposing language, are the arts of civil policy. When they have made the world a solitude, they ...

Sinking invalids blew kisses to him from windows. Aproned shopkeepers cheered ecstatically from the narrow doorways of their shops. Tubas crumped. Here and there a ...

The key to organizing an alternative society is to organize people around what they can do, and more importantly, what they want to do.

Life's a little bit too crazy for my liking right now.

Make the determination to abide in Jesus wherever you are now or wherever you may be placed in the future.

Faber est suae quisque fortunae. Each man is the architect of his own fate.

From 1783 at the end of the American Revolution to 1861, the number of slaves in the United States increased five times over, and all ...

Man does work for profit in order to enjoy pain; but in a positive sense, he works to enjoy the excitement and meaning that achievement ...

With: Go Ferchios off to Allad out of this! An oldsteinsong. He threwed his fit up to his aers, rolled his poligone eyes, snivelled from ...

Nothing matters as long as you are kind and authentic. If you are, then you did your best, and that is all you can do.

There was yet another date, of greater importance to her than those; that of her own death, when all these charms would had disappeared; a ...

In the '90s, it was cool to just like R&B. But I liked Nirvana and stuff, too.

Love reduces the complexity of living. It amazes me that when Henry walks towards the cafe table where I wait for him, or opens the ...

But our eyes are different, what you see ain't what I see.

But in the secret's courts of man's hearts Atticus had no case. Tom was a dead man the minute Mayella Ewell opened her mouth and ...

I would rather be arrested as a traitor than fight a war for Wall Street.

On average, 90 percent of the variability of returns and 100 percent of the absolute level of return is explained by asset allocation.

In the 1960s, I personally lived the resounding impact of President Nasser's vision of constructing Aswan's High Dam as a 'national project' for controlling the ...

Good habits are important, but it's often our bad habits that prevent us from reaching our full potential. You

Some people clean the fridge to avoid studying. I go to Brisbane.

To find someone who will love you for no reason, and to shower that person with reasons, that is the ultimate happiness.

Wit gives an edge to sense, and recommends it extremely.

Death is only perfect rest.

Night is a great gift from God" he said."It is the mother of man and comes quietly and tenderly to cover him.It rests its cool ...

In America, what you've accomplished financially is a measurement, whether you like it or not.

The Great Socialist himself is said to have embezzled one billion rupees from the Darkness, and transferred that money into a bank account in a ...

My mum told me to work hard. Insisted that if I did, I'd make a good life for myself. But all my hard work had ...

I thought I knew you," she snapped. "I thought you were a good man, down deep"Cett shook his head. "The good men are all dead, ...

Socrates and then Archesilaus used to make their pupils speak first; they spoke afterwards. 'Obest plerumque iss discere volunt authoritas eorum qui docent.' [For those ...

Must beauty blossom, rooted in decay,And night devour its flaming hues alway?

A census taker tried to quantify me once. I ate his liver with some fava beans and a big Amarone. Go back to school, little ...

We say submarining is a team sport, but in practice it often amounts to a bunch of individuals, each working in his own shell, rather ...

It seems that many health professionals involved in antenatal care have not realized that one of their role should be to protect the emotional state ...

Every year thousands of dogs are abandoned to shelters because of behavior problems. And these are things that can be corrected with just basic training. ...

My own rapping skills are quite good, actually. You get this thing, I think it's called Songify or AutoRap, and you talk into them, and ...

Dedication means spending whatever time or energy is necessary to accomplish the task at hand.

Allow me to let go, let it hurt if it hasto, let me regret if i have to.Aslong as my heart feels alive onceagain that's ...

It is the rank and file - the average woman - for whom the world has opened up so astonishingly.

And I also felt that no one in an audience could abuse me worse than the sort of abuse I had had at work as ...

I'm a different person. I don't want to be titled as Courtney Love and Kurt Cobain's daughter. I want to be thought of as Frances ...

No obligation to do the impossible is binding.

In reality, to remain neutral is to collude with the abusive man, whether or not that is your goal. If you are aware of chronic ...

There are angels on the tree?""Ah, because we all pray there are really angels watching over us, don't we?

I find this kind of folk with guys in Wellington boots and washboards not good to listen to. That music is one step away from ...

Language itself is a cultural convention, and since the Bible and other ancient documents use language to communicate, they are bound to a culture.

The moles nested in my cellar, nibbling every third potato, and making a snug bed even there of some hair left after plastering and of ...

I speak to my childhood friends almost every day over the Internet.

The fifth-century Greek writer we know as Dionysius the Areopagite once said that as he grew older and wiser his books got shorter and shorter.

[Hugh Jackman is] an Adamantium-laced Fred Astaire.

Be subtle, various, ornamental, clever, And do not listen to those critics ever Whose crude provincial gullets crave in books Plain cooking made still plainer ...

I don't mean to take the bow off the end of your rain, but you gotta be smart about your first boyfriend.

A mother deserves a day off to care for a sick child or sick parent without running into hardship - and you know what, a ...